“Reflections on John Henry: Ethical Issues in Singing Performance.” American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 4, 2008 and to be presented at The Expression of Subjectivity in the Performing Arts, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, November 25, 2008.

“Augustine and the Philosophical Approach to a Sacred Text.” Presented at American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Region Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, April 17-18, 1998.

“Eroticism and Erotic Love in Dostoevsky’s Idiot.” Presented at Canadian Association of Slavists Conference, Memorial University, June 6-8, 1997.

“Moral Conversion in Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata.” Presented at Russian Literature and Society between Two Wars (Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference) University of Toronto, October 20-21, 1995.

Comments on “Can There Be a Philosophy of Book Illustration?” by Tom Wartenberg at American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Savannah, November 12, 2015

Comments on “Speaking in Song and Singing in Speech: Another Paradox for the Paradoxical Art” by Peter Kivy at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Group Program, San Francisco, March 30, 2013.

Remarks on Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music at American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, St. Louis, October 27, 2012

Commentaries on “Is Music and Evolutionary Adaptation?” by Stephen Davies and “Music, Mood, and Misattribution” by Jenefer Robinson at American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Tampa, October 29, 2011

“Philosophy and the Upper Paleolithic Revolution” Remarks on David Johnson’s Three Prehistoric Inventions that Shaped Us at Vanier College, York University, October 5, 2011.

“Expression and Emotion in Music” A Commentary on “Kivy on Music and the Arousal of Emotion” by James Young and “Music, Emotion, and People: The Transmission Theory Defended” by Phil Jenkins. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 9, 2011.

“Reply to Critics” – Book session on Why Music Moves Us at Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Montreal, May 30, 2010.

“Music and Meaning: Songs in Performance.” Presented at American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Denver, October 24, 2009; and at NYU Music Department Colloquium Series, October 21, 2010.

“To See a Picture “as a Picture” First: Clement Greenberg and the Ambiguities of Modernism.” Keynote Address. What’s Left of Modernism? — Greenberg, Kant, and Contemporary Aesthetics, University of Saskatchewan, Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus, June 1-3, 2007.

“Moralism and Alternatives” A Commentary on “Moral Vices and Artistic Virtues” by Stephanie Patridge. Presented at American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, October 27, 2006

“Why does Music Move Us? Making Sense of the Musical Sublime.” Presented at Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, January 2007 and Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series, Carleton University, Ottawa, September 2006.

“The Unity in the Variety of Diverse Papers” A Commentary on “Uniformity and Variety Revisited” by John Brown and “Mitigated Aesthetic Nonrealism: Identifying Critic Clusters” by Stephanie Ross. Presented at American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 7, 2006.

“Character and Cunning” A Commentary on “Trust, Friendship, and Hume’s Reply to the Sensible Knave” by Ian Stoner. Presented at the International Hume Conference, Toronto, Ontario, July 23, 2005.

“Imagination and Judgements of Taste” A Commentary on “The Role of Symbolic Presentation in Kant’s Theory of Taste” by Alexander Rueger and Sahan Evren. Presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, London, Ontario, May 29, 2005.

“Knowledge, Truth, and Fiction” A Commentary on “Simulation, Subjective Knowledge, and the Cognitive Value of Literary Narrative” by Scott Stroud. Presented at American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Houston, October 28, 2004.

“What is Objectionable about Objectionable Jokes?” A Commentary on “Racist Joking: Irony and Empathy” by Tanya Rodriguez. Presented at American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, San Francisco, October 3, 2003.

“Moral Complexity and Narrative Art” A Commentary on “Is Poetry Post-Moral?” by Roger Seamon and “Modal Moralism” by Katharine Thomson. Presented at Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, May 25-27, 2002.

“Can Music Convey Semantic Content? A Kantian Approach.” Presented at Seminar in the Philosophy of Culture, Uppsala University, April 27, 2001.

“Hearing the Musical Object.” A Commentary on “Tchaikovsky Versus the Western Canon” by Brian Hendrix. Presented at Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, University of Alberta, May 24-27, 2000.

“Self-Scrutiny in the Ethical Thought of Maimonides.” Presented at York University Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium, March 17, 1998.

“Kierkegaard’s Neighbourly Love as a Ground for Tolerance.” A Commentary on “Love’s Im/Possibilities” by Frances Latchford. Presented at Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, Dalhousie University, September 26-28, 1997.

“The Unabomber as Rhetorician?” A Response to “The Unabomber, the Economics of Happiness and the End of the Millennium” by Doug Mann and Nebosja Kujundzic. Presented at Ontario Philosophical Society Conference, Brock University, October 18-19, 1996.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Carleton University, Internal SSHRC Research Award, 2008-09

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-04